Adelante/October 24 2004

from the Macalester Public Knowledge Base

Cynthia Navin presented on the killing of women workers in sweatshops in Mexico

Present: Galo Gonzalez

PowerPoint presentation file: http://macalester/adelante/web/2005/event/Juarez.ppt

Cinthia presented on her research with women organizing against Femicide in Ciudad Juarez.

• 4pm-5:30pm, Carnegie 06
• Present: Ben Mearns, Daniela Ramirez, Kafui Attoh, Corina Serrano, Lily Lyons, Ben Farduk, Kwame Tsikata, Marym Navin, John T. Navin, Lisa Dahlstrom, Shana L. Redmond, Marcela Sanchez, Guadalupe Perez, Paul Dosh, Jessica Mowles, Jessie Buendia, Cinthia Navin, Galo Gonzalez, Yongho Kim (Cinthia, I'll send you the contact info soon)

Notes

• Diana Russel has a broad definition of femicide that I'll use.
• Bodies of women were used as battlegrounds - pandillas actually leave marks on their bodies.
• Femicide and Ethnic cleansing (South Sudan)
• Domestic Violence is "legally" accepted in the sense that state takes no action.
• Drugs + volumte + community reinvestment rhetoric
• NAFTA decreased number of women in sweatshops?
• My paper is on the role of wome in organizations, who are really leading a social revolution. In partriarchies, women are allowed to organized because the assumption is that they have no power.
• Groups organizing have conflicting agendas
• I first heard of this from Chavez Cano at the UMN.
• Formal commission was created - government is starting to notice women.
• Galo Gonzalez: do you share your research with women who work there?

  RE: No, I haven't been able to. As I said, orgs have conflicting agendas - Mexican Solidarity Network, for example, doesn't work with the government. I want to take it up with high school students in Minnesota, however.